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"there has been chatter": watch out, there is a commercial battle between farmed salmon (essentially European) and wild salmon (essentially N. American), in which we may hear allegations of high toxicity levels in one or the other kinds. Specifically, that farmed salmon concentrates toxins because the sea-bottom small fish etc used to make feed are polluted; wild salmon because the N. Pacific is polluted with industrial toxins from Asia. There may be truth in both, but there's probably a certain amount of commercial disinformation going on.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 09:24:10 AM EST
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Ahhh, there are so many spin-off diaries to be written here that I won't be able to handle it all on my own. Besides, I'm not impartial, so I may not be the best candidate. Maybe you could write something about the salmon wars, afew?
by Alex in Toulouse on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 09:31:00 AM EST
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Am seconding a call for a diary on wild caught vs. farm raised salmon. In my doctor's office, one of his journals claimed that wild caught carnivorous fish such as salmon, tend to be high in mercury. Pacific salmon have the highest concentrations because of China's coal fired factories and power plants. The same article claimed that farm raised salmon from Northern Europe had a very high PCB level because they were given North Sea feeder fish for food. The magazine suggested Chilean farmed salmon as being the safest.
I have also heard the rumor of a North American versus European trade war on salmon and am intrigued.
by northsylvania on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 11:49:27 AM EST
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I'm switching to phytoplankton, I tell ya...

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 11:51:10 AM EST
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By the way, any of us could write such a diary: I hold that the best diaries are often written not by those who know the most but by those most eager to learn about the topic. It's just a matter of finding the time to research and write. Those who already know the most have the advantage of shorter research times, but that's about it.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 11:53:04 AM EST
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